Improvement in appaeatus foe distilling



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APatented Novl. 19, 11867.A l

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l Letters' Patent No. 71,156, dated lvovembe 19, 1867.

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. To ALLA WHoii Ir` MAYl eoNcERN:

Be it known-that I, ANDRE FOUBERT, of thercity andState of NewYork, have invented and made a certain new and useful Improvement in Distill'ing Apparatus; land I do hereby declare the following tobc a'full, clear, y and exact description of the same, 'reference being had to the' annexed drawing, making part of -this specilication, wherein I have shown a vertical section of two stills, with my arrangement of steam pipes applied thereto.

Two stills have heretofore been used for receiving the mash or light wines, and dis-tilling; the same in, rst,

one still, and then in the other. It has been usual to 'allowthe steam land water of condensation topass off from the stills separately, and thereby considerable heat is wasted. j i The nature of my said invention consists in an arrangement of pipes and cocks, applied in connection with twe stills,.thatithe .vaporand water oondensation that'pass off-from me shallbeeti-lieedl-and employed* in warming up the mushcr wine in the otherstill, previous to commencing the distilling operation, thereby effecting a saving both ottime iind'heat,4 as the fresh charge, supplier]alternately'to-the,stlls,istbrought to nearly a'boiling point by steam that has heretofore'licen wasted. Y

In the drawing, a and b represent the two'stills,lof any desired size or eliaracteiff'4 'cuis the steam-supply I pipe, with branchesd and e, and ceeksf and g, to the respective pipes that lead into the coils lin the stills, and heat the same. h and z are the cocks between the waste pipes and coils. k and l are cross pipes, running from 'the waste pipe of one coil to the supply-pipe. of the other coil, and m and n are cocks in these pipes. It will now be understood 'that tho escape vapor andheated water-of condensation can be forced by the stcam'through the pipe le, when the cock z' is closed and the cock n opened, and that said steam or hot water,.in passing through the coil in the other still a, will heat the contents, ande'ect a saving in the -amount of steam required. The cocksf, m, and z' are closedand the cocks g, h, andai open, when the still b is infull werkend the still a is being heated up, and the vreverse when the still a is in full work. I

Itwill be understood 'that this arrangement of pipes and `cocks allows 'either still to be `worked separately,` while the vother is being cleaned out; or it allows the one to be heated up by the surplus heat .from the other;

or it allows both to be worked fully at the same time.

This improvement is applicable to the stills employed in. rectfying spirits, aswell as in the manufacture 'of'A whiskey, and distillation'. generally.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the pipes and cocks as specified, in combination with two stills, for the purposes and as set forth. y v 'i In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twenty-fourthfday of August, A. D. 1867.

I A. FOUBERT. Witnesses: V

Gno. D. WALKER, mitos. GEO. HAROLD. 

